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This is a picture of the coake ovens at one of the closed coal mines outside of Trinidad

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While we were there they had a horrible forest fire.

  These are just a few pictures from very far away

 

 

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This is a historical house that was once used by the ranchers during winter months.

We almost ran into this moose along side the road.  He was huge!

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Joe almost falling into the valley along Monarch Pass